📈 Don’t solve problems, our background, when problem-solving becomes a passion

Local Optimum: short, imperfect-yet-useful ideas - Edition #13

Welcome to a new edition of Local Optimum: a short, imperfect-yet-useful collection of ideas related to optimization, decision-making, and applied Operations Research.

Let’s dive in! 🪂

1) ❌ Don’t solve problems…

If you don’t have them.

I recently did read this article, and it resonated a lot.

Especially after realizing I already wrote this on LinkedIn two months ago.

2) 🎓 Our background

I launched yesterday a poll on LinkedIn to see what your background is, so I’ll be happy to see some more answers! 🙂

Is Industrial Engineering going to win?

3) 💘 When problem-solving becomes a passion

Now that we’re talking about our past…

I recently wrote about mine.

Not only that, I also shared breakthroughs and lessons along the way, why I decided to pursue a PhD and, of course, my initial steps into this world.

Here’s the full article:

📈 #71 When problem-solving becomes a passion: my journey into optimization

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Symmetry issues in optimization problems (part B)

Next Monday, I’ll share the rest of the article about symmetry issues in optimization problems.

In the first part, I talked about what they are and classical techniques to address them.

And in Part B, I’ll cover:

🔬 Advanced and ML-guided techniques to break symmetries
🛠 Practical ways to dealing with it

I needed to split the article, it was going to be a huge one!

If you’re dealing with symmetry problems and want to understand advanced techniques and useful tips, this will be useful. See you Monday!

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Borja.